BILL NUMBER: ACR 39	CHAPTERED  05/27/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   41
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   MAY 27, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   MAY 25, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 29, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wayne

                        APRIL 5, 1999

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 39--Relative to Military
Families Recognition Day.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 39, Wayne.  Military Families Recognition Day.
   This measure would designate Saturday, November 20, 1999, as
Military Families Recognition Day.




   WHEREAS, Military families play an integral role in ensuring the
effectiveness of America's Armed Forces; and
   WHEREAS, Without fanfare, military families selflessly provide
behind-the-scenes support to service members, their units, and their
commands worldwide; and
   WHEREAS, Their devotion to their loved ones, the military, and
their country is unfaltering; and
   WHEREAS, Military families frequently and bravely bid farewell, as
wives, husbands, children, and parents depart for missions in far
off and often hostile areas; and
   WHEREAS, Military families face abrupt separations which often
create single-parent families to endure not only the absence of a
loved one but the hardship of rearing children alone for extended
periods of time; and
   WHEREAS, Military families are uprooted from their hometowns and
moved to foreign soil for tours in isolated locations away from
friends and relatives; and
   WHEREAS, As they adjust to conditions around the world, military
families learn to do without many of the conveniences that most
Americans consider part of their basic lifestyle; and
   WHEREAS, Military families quickly and adeptly transform
unfamiliar quarters into welcoming homes, forming bonds of friendship
with others in the unit, and sharing their hopes, dreams, and
aspirations; and
   WHEREAS, Military families in foreign lands act as goodwill
ambassadors, representing all Americans; and
   WHEREAS, Military families are committed to preserving freedom and
democracy for all, and these families provide the continuity and
stability essential to the well-being of our soldiers, sailors,
airmen, Marines, and the members of our Coast Guard, National Guard,
and the Reserves; and
   WHEREAS, We have long recognized the importance of families in the
retention and readiness of military members; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature, in honor of military
families throughout the world who are supporting the American men and
women who defend the cause of freedom at home and abroad, hereby
designates Saturday, November 20, 1999, as Military Families
Recognition Day.
